On Feb. 6, 1933, Oymyakon, Russia, hit minus 90 degrees — one of the coldest temperatures ever recorded where people actually ...

Russia aims to turn Siberia into the center of a new industrialization push and attract workers eastward, Security Council Secretary and former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday. Shoigu ...

Russia is sinking ever deeper into economic dependence on China. Raw-material projects in the Far East and Siberia are turning the region into a resource base for Beijing, while local communities ...

"Crater 1" was one of the first reported craters on the Yamal Peninsula. In June 2017, a reindeer herder of the Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia, Russia, reported a loud blast and smoke rising ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOSCOW (AP) — A devastating explosion in a ...

Across Siberia and Russia's far eastern regions, more than 120 memorials to participants in the invasion of Ukraine have been installed at a cost of at least 500 million rubles ($5.6 million) over the ...

A Russian man repeatedly convicted of violent crimes is accused of strangling a woman to death after returning from the war ...

Russia is planning to allocate RUB 700 billion (about US$8.7 billion) to the Siberia Development Programme, which will include the mass resettlement of residents of Ukraine's temporarily occupied ...

Yakutsk isn't a typical tourist destination. It's an extreme environment where humans have adapted to conditions that would ...